Satellite Symposium 5: Molecular Breeding
Description
Effective management of plant material used in crop improvement and underpinning research is greatly facilitated by a properly designed data structure accessible by all those working with the material. At IGER we have developed the Aberystwyth Genetic Resources Information System, AGRIS, for managing genetic resources acquired through collecting trips, seed exchange, breeding and transgenic programmes. Recently this has been complemented by MaPIS, a Mapping Populations Information System, which links with AGRIS and allows for storage and documentation of information about plant mapping populations, including pedigrees, status and physical locations of accessions and individual genotypes. IGER also maintains the European Central Crop Databases for Lolium species and Trifolium repens, and the UK National Inventory of all plant genetic resources conserved ex situ in the UK; by November 2004, the UKNI had contributed over 220000 accessions to the 900000 in the Europe-wide database EURISCO.
Included in
Agricultural Science Commons, Agronomy and Crop Sciences Commons, Plant Biology Commons, Plant Pathology Commons, Soil Science Commons, Weed Science Commons
Databases for Managing Genetic Resources Collections and Mapping Populations of Forage and Related Species
Effective management of plant material used in crop improvement and underpinning research is greatly facilitated by a properly designed data structure accessible by all those working with the material. At IGER we have developed the Aberystwyth Genetic Resources Information System, AGRIS, for managing genetic resources acquired through collecting trips, seed exchange, breeding and transgenic programmes. Recently this has been complemented by MaPIS, a Mapping Populations Information System, which links with AGRIS and allows for storage and documentation of information about plant mapping populations, including pedigrees, status and physical locations of accessions and individual genotypes. IGER also maintains the European Central Crop Databases for Lolium species and Trifolium repens, and the UK National Inventory of all plant genetic resources conserved ex situ in the UK; by November 2004, the UKNI had contributed over 220000 accessions to the 900000 in the Europe-wide database EURISCO.
